Overview
Description
A studio field course working in high desert locations around Tahoe and the Great Basin. Exploring larger issues of sustainable practice, land use, and embodied place by preparing and presenting artwork in the landscape.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.
Units
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Restrictions
formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- create site-responsive artworks that demonstrate an understanding of sustainable and ethical approaches to making art in outdoor environments.
- identify and describe basic strategies for thinking about landscape, time, and place in the context of environmental art.
- collaborate with peers to plan and present work in the landscape, showing an awareness of shared space, community, and audience.
- synthesize and communicate how student artwork interacts with the high desert environment, considering material, scale, and ecological impact.